"I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement."

-- Jonathan Haidt

#Order Quotes #Giving Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.”
“Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be serfs on such a feudal estate. We now condemn feudalism. We condemn not merely the feudal lords but we condemn the whole structure of rules that sustained feudalism. I am asking people to think similarly about the world economy.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.”
“Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.”
“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.”

Source : "Psyche and Matter". Book by Marie-Louise von Franz, p. 2016, 1992.
“People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.”
“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”

Source : Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”
“One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.”

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